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Today’s News & Commentary — April 4, 2017

Apr 4, 2017 Edward Nasser

Google’s self-driving car program, Waymo, finds itself in an intense legal battle with Uber. Seven weeks ago, Waymo sued the ride sharing company stealing trade secrets, according to the Wall Street Journal. At the center of the battle is Anthony Levandowski, a former executive with Waymo who Google accuses of developing a competing self driving car company during […]

Gig News: Seattle Gig Unionization Ordinance On Hold

Apr 3, 2017 Jon Weinberg

Despite surviving multiple court challenges, the revolutionary Seattle municipal ordinance giving gig economy independent contractors the right to unionize appears to be on hold. According to Bloomberg BNA, a Seattle city attorney announced the city will delay enforcement of the law in proceedings before the district court hearing the challenge to the ordinance last week. Uber, […]

Today’s News & Commentary — April 3, 2017

Apr 3, 2017 Adi Kamdar

The New York Times has a thorough feature about how Uber is using “psychological tricks” to subtly control the drivers who use the service. The article focuses on how the company “solves” the problem of how it cannot exert too much control over its drivers—currently treated as independent contractors—by using inducements: alerts questioning decisions to […]

Birmingham & The Impact of Race on State Preemption Laws

Apr 3, 2017 Karim Lakhani

Early last year, Alabama passed a preemption law preventing any city in the state from, among other things, setting their own minimum wage. The law was perceived to be targeting Birmingham, the only city in Alabama to have enacted a minimum wage ordinance that went beyond the federal minimum wage. In response, the NAACP filed […]

Weekend News & Commentary — April 1-2, 2017

Apr 2, 2017 Maia Usui

Fox News has paid out as much as $13 million to fend off sexual harassment claims against their top anchor, Bill O’Reilly. A New York Times investigation has revealed that five women (including employees) have received payouts either from O’Reilly or the network in exchange for their promise not to pursue litigation or speak out in public. This is the second sexual harassment scandal […]

Guest Post: A Letter from Sharon Block

Mar 28, 2017 Sharon Block

Sharon Block is the Executive Director of Harvard University’s Labor and Worklife Program. She formerly served in the Obama Administration as the Principal Deputy Assistant Secretary for Policy at the Department of Labor and Senior Counselor to the Secretary of Labor. Dear Friends: Two months ago, I walked out of the Frances Perkins Building in […]

Educating America’s Twenty-First Century Workforce

Mar 8, 2017 Christopher M. Young

The nature of work in America is changing, with increasingly sophisticated automation, advanced digital platforms, and other technological innovations serving as a catalyst. And these transformations are only adding to the challenges facing the American labor force and its readiness to succeed at work, especially younger workers who are relying on their secondary educations to […]

Sharon Block to Join Harvard's Labor and Worklife Program as Executive Director

Dec 21, 2016 Benjamin Sachs

Harvard’s Labor and Worklife Program (of which I am a faculty co-director) announced this morning that Sharon Block will become the new Executive Director in February. While the announcement means that the Program will lose its long-time director, Elaine Bernard, who has successfully stewarded the Program for nearly thirty years, the addition of Block will […]

Goldsmith on Online Student Writing

Oct 28, 2016 Benjamin Sachs

Jack has a great post up on Lawfare about online writing by law students. The piece reflects Jack’s thinking on: why students should write for the public; which kinds of student writing tend to work (and which don’t); how to write well for an online audience; and which kinds of audiences make sense for student writing. He […]

Guest Post: What Hillary Needs to Say About Trade

Sep 29, 2016 Katherine V.W. Stone

Katherine V.W. Stone is the Arjay and Frances Miller Distinguished Professor of Law at UCLA School of Law. She is the author of “From Widgets to Digits: Employment Regulation for the Changing Workplace” (Cambridge Univ. Press) and “Rethinking Workplace Regulation: Beyond the Standard Contract of Employment” (with Harry Arthurs). (Russell Sage Foundation 2013). This post originally appeared in The […]

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Today’s News & Commentary — April 4, 2017

Gig News: Seattle Gig Unionization Ordinance On Hold

Today’s News & Commentary — April 3, 2017

Birmingham & The Impact of Race on State Preemption Laws

Weekend News & Commentary — April 1-2, 2017

Guest Post: A Letter from Sharon Block

Educating America’s Twenty-First Century Workforce

Sharon Block to Join Harvard's Labor and Worklife Program as Executive Director

Goldsmith on Online Student Writing

Guest Post: What Hillary Needs to Say About Trade